Cosmos-1 Solar Sails Unmanned Missions
A privately-funded Russian-made solar sail launched from a submarine on July 20, 2001. The sail failed to deploy soon afterwards, and the mission ended.
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- Hunt For Solar Sail Continues After Capsule Separation Failure - Scientists continued to analyze telemetry data to determine solar sails what had gone wrong. [Space.com]
- Russian Sub Launches Solar Sail - Brief launch announcement. [CNN]
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